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According to CoinDesk, Ethereum researchers have proposed rebuilding the validator deposit contract to support a new cryptographic system and ultimately stop accepting deposits protected by the existing BLS signatures. This proposal targets the deposit contract, aiming to add a switch that prevents the network from accepting the currently relied-upon signature format.Currently, the contract only accepts BLS keys because their exact size is hardcoded, while the new draft allows for different key sizes, with each deposit tagged by the cryptographic system used, where BLS receives a tag of zero, reserving space for future schemes.If the proposal is approved, it will initially operate with BLS deposits, while other schemes can be registered simultaneously. Future decisions may permanently disable new BLS deposits, at which point validators who have staked using BLS keys will not disappear, but new validators will not be able to join using this method. Ethereum will ultimately need to change separately to inform validators how to check new signatures. This is part of the migration for validators, while another part is already in progress—EIP-8141 framework transaction proposals will allow regular Ethereum accounts to change the cryptographic method for approving transactions without changing their address.The urgency stems from research released in March by Google's Quantum AI research department, which outlined five quantum attack paths against Ethereum, putting over $100 billion in assets at potential risk. The Ethereum Foundation is advancing core protocol changes with a target around 2029. Currently, the amount of ETH staked in Ethereum is approximately 42.4 million, valued at about $10.4 billion.

ARK Invest's Director of Digital Asset Research, Lorenzo, stated that the latest improvement proposals from Solana and Ethereum are surprising. The market has indicated that Hyperliquid and others are posing strong competition, but the relevant communities are still taking time to adjust inflation arrangements and CU restrictions, which may further decrease the competitiveness of applications. He believes that L1 should prioritize how proposals can enhance network competitiveness, promote growth, and attract more consumer-grade applications and users.Lorenzo pointed out that for Solana, this is certainly not the time to be entangled in the value accumulation of token holders versus cash flow, or to increase the costs for application developers. It is essential to first prove that the pie can be expanded 100 times before discussing how to allocate it. Although in the future, it will be necessary to price high resource-consuming transactions more finely and address token value accumulation, if market share is seized by HYPE, there will be no value to accumulate. The current priority should be to expand the pie 100 times.

According to SoSoValue data, the total net inflow for Ethereum spot ETFs is $180 million. The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest single-day net inflow is the Blackrock ETF ETHA, with a single-day net inflow of $146 million. Currently, the historical total net inflow for ETHA has reached $12.407 billion.Following that is the Fidelity ETF FETH, with a single-day net inflow of $25.7523 million. Currently, the historical total net inflow for FETH has reached $2.208 billion. As of the time of publication, the total net asset value of Ethereum spot ETFs is $14.881 billion, and the ETF net asset ratio (the market value as a percentage of Ethereum's total market value) is 5.06%. The historical cumulative net inflow has reached $12.446 billion.

The Ethereum Foundation issued a reminder that the Glamsterdam upgrade will include adjustments to Gas fees (EIP-8037 and EIP-8038), involving changes to the costs of state creation and access. Most contracts will not be affected, but some contracts that rely on hard-coded Gas values and other old assumptions may need to be updated; otherwise, they may fail or experience performance degradation.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the "Ethereum August Price Prediction" event on the prediction market Polymarket, the "Yes" option for the sub-market "2,400 USD" has experienced significant fluctuations in winning probability, soaring from 72.5% an hour ago to the current 88% (a fluctuation of 15.5%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

Analyst Ted (@TedPillows) stated that the Coinbase Ethereum premium has turned positive, indicating that institutions are accumulating. In related discussions, market participants noted that a positive premium means that U.S. demand is beginning to re-emerge, and Ethereum is showing some strength.The Coinbase premium is typically used to measure the premium or discount level of asset prices on the Coinbase platform relative to other major trading platforms. When this indicator turns from negative to positive, it is often interpreted as U.S. investors, particularly institutional funds, being relatively active in buying, providing support for spot demand. The recent rebound in Ethereum-related premiums is viewed by some observers as one of the signals of marginal improvement in liquidity.

According to Cointelegraph, the cryptocurrency exchange MEXC has chosen Bybit EU, which has obtained MiCAR authorization, as the recommended alternative platform for Dutch users before exiting the Dutch market. MEXC is preparing to cease its related services in the Netherlands and guide local users to migrate to compliant exchanges.Bybit EU has obtained authorization under the EU Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) to provide compliant services in the relevant jurisdictions. This move aims to help Dutch users continue to access trading services after MEXC's exit while complying with local regulatory requirements.

According to CoinDesk, a price fluctuation of about 3% in tokens on the lending platform Morpho triggered approximately $36 million in liquidations. The incident was caused by a wallet that bought a large amount of the yield token YT-reUSD issued by Pendle, pushing the implied annual yield up to 20% before quickly selling it, resulting in a price drop of about 3% for the corresponding principal token PT-reUSD.Previously, some traders deposited PT-reUSD into Morpho, borrowed stablecoin USDC, and then bought more PT-reUSD in a circular operation, leaving less than 3% of liquidation buffer space for leveraged positions. Morpho uses oracle prices, taking the lower value between the average trading price of PT-reUSD over the past 15 minutes and a fixed path that gradually approaches $1 at maturity. Liquidation is triggered when the market price falls below this curve. Pendle stated that the price source configuration is correct and operates as designed.Steakhouse Financial, responsible for managing the related lending market, stated that its lenders in the treasury were unaffected, with no bad debts incurred, and the proceeds from the liquidation were sufficient to repay the loans. After withdrawing funds during the investigation, Steakhouse reinvested, and the underlying asset reUSD was unaffected.

According to Cointelegraph, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of Thailand has advanced its regulatory framework for locally listed spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs from a principled proposal to the rule draft stage and is publicly soliciting opinions on this. The regulatory agency released two consultation documents on Monday, one containing the rule draft for Thailand's crypto ETFs, and the other proposing qualification principles for foreign digital asset custodians.In the initial phase, asset management companies can establish passive ETFs that track Bitcoin or Ethereum, which are the only qualified crypto assets. According to the proposed rules, Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs will only trade on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), with each ETF tracking a single crypto asset and required to maintain at least 80% net asset exposure to that asset within each accounting year. Mutual funds and private funds can also invest in Thailand's local crypto ETFs, as well as the foreign crypto ETFs they are permitted to invest in, but must comply with existing investment limits. However, in the initial phase, the regulatory agency does not allow alternative products linked to foreign crypto ETFs, including depositary receipts that track them.Regarding custody, the revised plan still primarily relies on domestic digital asset custodians as the main service providers in the initial phase, and the Thai SEC may allow the use of qualified foreign digital asset custodians when necessary. Foreign custodians must be supervised by a regulatory agency with legal authority and meet the regulatory and investor asset protection standards deemed sufficient by the Thai SEC. The deadline for public opinion collection on the two consultation documents is September 20.

Stablecoin issuer Tether entered Uruguay in May 2023, planning to engage in sustainable Bitcoin mining and invest in energy production with local licensed companies. The project has two mining sites in the Florida province, with an estimated investment of 60 million USD each, totaling approximately 120 million USD.Uruguay's state-owned electricity company UTE had a disagreement with Tether regarding the electricity supply contract amount. Tether's Uruguayan entity Microfin stopped paying electricity bills in May 2025 and notified of its intention to terminate the contract in June; on July 25, UTE cut off power to the mining site, with Microfin owing nearly 5 million USD and monthly electricity costs of about 2 million USD.On November 25, 2025, Tether notified the Uruguayan labor department of its cessation of operations, with 30 out of 38 local positions being eliminated. UTE stated that Microfin had settled its debts by December; in 2025, 98% of Uruguay's electricity generation came from renewable energy.

The Ethereum community has released a deposit contract EIP proposal that supports post-quantum computing. The proposal aims to introduce a new contract that supports variable-length public keys and credential metadata, along with a clear scheme identifier, where scheme 0 is reserved for the current BLS deposits.The new contract no longer relies on the Merkle tree structure of the old deposit contract but instead passes deposit information to the consensus layer through execution requests derived from EIP-7685 logs. This contract features an irreversible mode controlled by protocol system calls: deposits are initially disabled, BLS deposits are enabled at a specified timestamp, and BLS deposits are permanently disabled at a later timestamp, with no option for re-enabling. During the migration period, the execution client must merge deposit requests from the new and old contracts.

According to SoSoValue data, yesterday (Eastern Time August 24) the total net inflow for Ethereum spot ETFs was $116 million.The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest net inflow yesterday was Blackrock ETF ETHA, with a single-day net inflow of $90.9162 million, bringing ETHA's historical total net inflow to $12.261 billion. Following that was Grayscale Ethereum Trust ETF ETH, with a single-day net inflow of $12.4965 million, bringing ETH's historical total net inflow to $1.862 billion.As of the time of writing, the total net asset value of Ethereum spot ETFs was $14.739 billion, with an ETF net asset ratio (market value as a percentage of Ethereum's total market value) of 4.93%, and the historical cumulative net inflow has reached $12.266 billion.

On August 24, the multi-chain decentralized over-collateralized stablecoin USDD announced the official launch of the Vault feature on Ethereum, allowing users to mint USDD using ETH and WBTC as core collateral assets. This upgrade is a further expansion based on the previous TRON chain Vault, meaning the USDD Vault module has officially entered the dual-chain driven phase and the ETH + BTC dual core mainstream asset collateral stage, providing more entry points for mainstream asset holders to participate in the USDD ecosystem.In April of this year, USDD successfully launched the WBTC Vault on the TRON network, achieving the first Bitcoin collateralized minting of USDD, opening the channel for BTC assets to enter the USDD yield system. The launch of this new Vault extends this capability to the Ethereum chain and expands the range of collateral assets from BTC to ETH and a broader range of mainstream digital assets, forming a dual-chain parallel structure with the original Vault on the TRON chain, further enriching the minting methods and funding application scenarios of USDD.

According to BBX data, yesterday and in recent days, globally listed companies in the U.S. stock market disclosed their latest official ledgers regarding digital asset treasury allocation, computing power network expansion, and business transformation. The core updates are as follows:Strive (NASDAQ: $ASST) invested in an additional 1,110 BTC, total holdings surpassed 21,000: According to the 8-K filing submitted by Strive to the U.S. SEC, the company purchased 1,110 bitcoins at an average price of approximately $73,409 between August 17 and 21, 2026, significantly increasing its purchase scale compared to previous weeks. As of August 21, Strive held a total of 21,356 BTC, along with 505,000 shares of Strategy STRC preferred stock (fair value approximately $48.57 million) and about $171.9 million in cash.BitMine made a massive purchase of 32,000 ETH last week, with annualized staking yields reaching $330 million: Nasdaq-listed mining company Bitmine Immersion Technologies (NYSE: $BMNR) disclosed a significant increase in its holdings of 32,447 Ethereum last week. As of August 23, 2026, its total ETH holdings reached 5,847,611 (approximately 4.8% of the total supply on the network). The total value of the company's held crypto assets, cash, and equity is approximately $14.9 billion. Currently, the staked Ethereum remains at 5,067,309 (87% of total holdings), valued at approximately $12.4 billion, with current annualized staking yields of about $330 million.Aethir launched an AI computing power acceleration plan, introducing an ATH token burn mechanism: The decentralized computing power network Aethir announced the launch of the ACCELERATE plan to accelerate the deployment of AI data center GPU computing power in Europe and the U.S. The plan has locked in 10 sites (total capacity of 20 megawatts), expected to generate up to $700 million in contracts by the end of 2026, with a total contract value expected to reach $2 billion. At the same time, Aethir will update the token economics for IDC computing power providers, introducing a burn mechanism and variable platform fee rates, allowing ATH token holders to benefit from the growth of on-chain revenue.CleanCore liquidated 460 million Dogecoin, raising $100 million for AI infrastructure transformation: Cleaning products company CleanCore announced it raised approximately $100 million through a stock issuance and sold all of the approximately 463 million Dogecoin (DOGE) previously held on its balance sheet (returning about $33.4 million in cash). The funds will be used to support its comprehensive transformation into AI infrastructure business in Minnesota.

Bankless cites Fundstrat's view that its ten-year vision for BitMNR is to bet on Ethereum becoming the dominant chain for tokenization and AI. Fundstrat states that it has bet on Ethereum becoming the place where a large number of related activities occur, and believes its legacy lies in helping Ethereum maintain its status as the most important public chain in the future.When discussing ETH performance, Fundstrat argues that it is a very reasonable point that ETH could flip Bitcoin's native narrative; if ETH reaches $50,000, $100,000, or $200,000, the returns for shareholders will be extremely substantial.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino stated that USDT has expanded globally as an alternative to the dollar, helping developing countries access foreign currency for domestic and cross-border business activities. He emphasized that Tether's mission to promote financial inclusion is more important than ever.In 2025, economist Asdrubal Oliveros pointed out that nearly 80% of Venezuela's oil revenue is paid through stablecoins. This year, the P2P stablecoin market trading volume is equivalent to 75% of the country's monthly oil exports, with 90.2% of the orders in the Binance P2P order book containing USDT. Argentina continues to maintain demand for stablecoins after the end of currency controls, with some users utilizing them for liquidity management and hedging against local currency depreciation. Bolivia is evaluating the inclusion of USDT into its financial system, and Tether's market capitalization has surpassed $180 billion.

According to Cointelegraph, CME Group has added Ethena's ENA token to its cryptocurrency benchmark index.Ethena is the protocol that issues the synthetic dollar stablecoin USDe, and ENA is its governance token. As a leading derivatives exchange globally, this move further expands CME Group's cryptocurrency benchmark coverage to this asset.

According to TradingBeats monitoring, the largest long position address on-chain for Ethereum has started to take profits. This address is associated with BIT and reduced its holdings by 14,000 ETH, approximately worth 34.15 million USD, 5 minutes ago.The remaining position size is about 25.24 million USD, with an average opening price of 2,340.86 USD, and the remaining position has an unrealized profit of about 1.83 million USD.This address has received funds transferred from Matrixport (now renamed BIT) multiple times and is currently the largest long position on-chain for ETH, with two associated addresses collaborating to build the position; this address is the main address.